The campaign creates virtual and physical spaces for people to reflect on four essential questions that are almost completely absent from the current national
conversation about school improvement: How do people learn?
Students can be meaningfully involved in teaching
adults about school improvement, monitoring school improvement, and evaluating the impact of school improvement.
The education secretary told delegates at the SCHOOLS NorthEast summit in Newcastle last week that she wanted trainees to «work in a number of different settings» so they could learn
more about school improvement.
As a superintendent, I hired a couple of principals out of [the UCAPP program], and these people would come to the table when we were at administrative council meetings and they knew how to disaggregate data, they knew how to use data, they knew
about school improvement plans, they knew about how you effectively evaluate staff; I mean, they came in and they were ready to go to work!
She's infamously demanding of her teachers and employees, rattling off a constant stream of
emails about school improvements and test scores, and current and former Success teachers have described anxiety and fear in their schools when Moskowitz has come to visit.
«The changing exclusion rates make it difficult to draw accurate
judgments about school improvement and student progress in many schools, as well as across the system as a whole,» the report states.
In the first episode of Teacher's podcast series on school improvement, we speak to Karen Endicott, principal of Sarah Redfern High School in New South Wales,
about her school improvement journey.
In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are
serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.»
About School Improvement Network Founded in 1991 by teachers, the School Improvement Network provides comprehensive, research - based professional development anytime, anywhere.
We are committed to producing the highest quality reports on CSR models; widely disseminating these reports; and providing technical assistance to help states, districts, and schools translate the reports» findings into informed
choices about school improvement.
As the principal investigator for the evaluation of the federal Center on School Turnaround, Scott has collected
data about school improvement efforts nationwide.
The government is keen to talk about the structures in education, evidenced by its fixation with schools becoming academies, but is less keen to
talk about school improvement as well.
It's not just about helping a particular type of school, but will be
about school improvement across the board, including helping good schools to become outstanding.»
Having a goal is only one part of being
SMART about school improvement, as Anne and Terry reveal as they show how to use the SMART Goal Process to effect real change.
School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national
conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.
The school's Leadership Team regularly looks at school performance data and aggregated classroom observation data and uses that data to make
decisions about school improvement and professional development needs.